Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Enchanted Horse, part 63:…

What were the girls doing at dinner, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: girls · What happens: be, do · To what, where: girls, dinner

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 223 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Enchanted Horse, part 63: the prince tells his flight and dines with the princess» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 girls	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 girls	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girls	det
4	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 girls	acl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 dinner	case
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dinner	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 girls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the girls					tree rules
2	do	gerund	the girls not said here			dinner and mate			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Singing to instruments

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 instruments	case
3	instruments	instrument	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund			instruments				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to instrument=Recipient

Option 2

Eating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Dancing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Serving food to the guests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Serving	serve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Serving	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 guests	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 guests	det
5	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Serving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	serve	gerund		food	the guests				vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent food=Theme to guest=Recipient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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